Melanie Archer

Current

• Front-End Developer (Consultant) at Two Banjos At Once

Past

• Front-End Developer (Consultant) at Limos.com
• Web Developer at Dragon Media Online, Inc.
• On Sabbatical at various Bay Area endeavors

• Commuter at Epocrates, Inc.
• Front-End Developer (Consultant) at TripIt
• Front-End Developer (Consultant) at Six Apart
• Web Manager at College of Letters and Science Computing Resources
• Web Developer (Consultant) at The Addis Group
• Web User Interface Developer at KPMG Consulting/Metrius

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Websites

• Two Banjos At Once

Melanie Archer’s Summary

Extensive experience as front-end developer, working affably with both designers and back-end programmers, on a variety of Web sites and Web applications.

I work in the City of San Francisco or in the East Bay (415 and 510 area codes).

Melanie Archer’s Specialties:

CSS 1/2, XHTML/HTML, JavaScript/Ajax/DOM, W3C standards

Melanie Archer’s Experience

• Front-End Developer (Consultant)

  Two Banjos At Once

  (Internet industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years)

  Developed CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript from designers' comps, wireframes, and specifications. Contributed to high-profile, standards compliant, and successful projects with other mid-career and senior Web professionals.

• Front-End Developer (Consultant)

  Limos.com

  (Internet industry)

  June 2008 — December 2008 (7 months)

  Developed XHTML, CSS, JavaScript front-end for Ruby on Rails application, in major overhaul of existing, well-known Web property offering a worldwide limousine search service.

• Web Developer

  Dragon Media Online, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

  Took responsibility for all tasks of a major redesign of a Web application interface. Wrote project plan, devised wireframes, developed templates in XHTML/CSS/JavaScript. Established prose style for content; enforced proper usage of "it's" and "there."

• On Sabbatical

  various Bay Area endeavors

  (Program Development industry)

  July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)

  Contributed Web, computer, and general expertise to variety of projects, including a vintage sheet music library, a tango dance performance group, and an audio-visual consultant's Web site. Co-founded and facilitated Ruby programming study group.

• Commuter

  Epocrates, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — January 2008 (2 months)

  Commuted at least four hours each work day. Acquired extensive, practical knowledge of the vagaries and design flaws of Bay Area transit options.

• Front-End Developer (Consultant)

  TripIt

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)

  Joined small team in building application praised as, among other things, one of "50 websites you'll wonder how you lived without." Developed XHTML/CSS from designers' wireframes and documents, into templates for Symfony PHP framework. Customized YUI (Yahoo! User Interface) JavaScript widgets for seamless match with the TripIt application's look-and-feel.

• Front-End Developer (Consultant)

  Six Apart

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)

  Built XHTML/CSS templates for new, greatly anticipated, hosted blogging service, Vox (http://vox.com), which would permit greatest flexibility in restyling per user preferences: with one button, any of Vox's users can change the typography, layout, and color palette of her or his blog.

• Web Manager

  College of Letters and Science Computing Resources

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 10 months)

  Acted as first full-time Web consultant for computing support team. Brought current industry standards and practices in Web site development to redesign and new site projects.

• Web Developer (Consultant)

  The Addis Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2001 — April 2002 (9 months)

  Developed XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP for Web sites. Supervised work of junior front-end developers, located offsite in Uganda.

• Web User Interface Developer

  KPMG Consulting/Metrius

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  January 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 3 months)

  Developed XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, and PHP from designers' mockups for clients such as Microsoft UK, Cisco, the City of Houston (TX), Epiphany, and Motorola.

Additional Information

Melanie Archer’s Websites:

• Two Banjos At Once

Melanie Archer’s Interests:

Developing with W3C standards, JavaScript frameworks and libraries, Web accessibility, Web content styling for mobile and handheld usage

Melanie Archer’s Honors:

2004: Presenter, Ex'pression College for Digital Art, Emeryville, CA
Presented three-hour lecture and real-time demonstration of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) layout concepts to twenty-five college-level design students.

2002: 2nd place, Accessible Internet Rally, San Francisco, CA

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